Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton are ideal as a malevolent married couple in first-time film director Mike Nichols' searing 1966 film of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Taylor won her second Academy Award for the film, which garnered 13 Oscar nominations (including Best Picture) and five wins in all, for her portrayal of the abusive Martha, while Burton matches her as her emotionally spent spouse George. George Segal and Sandy Dennis (who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress) costar as another couple that strays into George and Martha's destructive path.

"In this screen adaptation of Edward Albee's searing play, Taylor and Burton write the original book on marital disharmony. They spark, shock, hurt, and shout down everyone they love, but mostly each other in this groundbreaking look at lovers and other strangers."—Austin Chronicle